Saying something brief about Black ★ Rock Shooter

Black ★ Rock Shooter (and that's the last time I am adding
the ★ character to its title) is technically part of the
winter 2012 season; it just started a month or so
after everything else.

I thought that the Black Rock Shooter OVA had decently nice action
but was otherwise mostly incomprehensible. The first episode of the TV
series reduces the action and makes it less comprehensible (and more
random) while swapping out everything else for relatively pedestrian
drama (admittedly with a crazy person or two). In light of my trimming
this season I've so far seen no reason to watch any
more of it. If it had kept the quality of action of the OVA I would have
watched it for the action alone, but it didn't.

(This is the sort of thing that almost fits in a Tweet, but not quite.)